one man's junk....

...is another man's treasure, or so they say. This was proven today. We had our first ever garage sale. A month or so ago we got a notice saying that someone in our neighborhood was organizing a neighborhood sale, and after first deciding against it, we eventually changed our minds and decided to give it a go and clear out whatever we could. We ended up finding way more than we thought we had....and lots of things we figured nobody would buy. My friend Allecia brought some things over, too, like a book called "Our State's Spiders" or something like that (it had the actual name of our state in the title, but I didn't want to write that, so you can figure out the title if you know where I live!). She said, "Who would ever have this book in their house????" My husband said, "Well, it's your book!" and we couldn't believe it, but someone actually bought it! Would you pay a quarter for a book about spiders found in our state??? Crazy.

It was funny to see what things went quickly and what hung around all day--many things we thought would go easily didn't go at all, or went only after we kept lowering the price throughout the day, and other strange things were snatched up in a second. In the end, we got rid of almost everything and made a whole lot more than we ever thought we would've. We boxed up the left overs and took them to a donation center, just to get rid of them. Our house is that much more uncluttered (though trust me, there still is plenty of clutter! I'm sure we'll have another one in a few years).

Our little one LOVED it. She got to play outside ALL day (it was a gorgeous day to be outside, too--low humidity, sunny...perfect!) and see lots and lots of people, dogs, and babies. We were constantly chasing her but she was very good and happy most of the day. It was a good, but tiring day. We met neighbors we hadn't met before and making money on your "junk" is always a happy thing!